Hassell and Toop at punkt-festival

[rune fagereng <rune_fagereng@yahoo.no>]

Hi!
Both Hassell ang Toop plays in Norway next weeek.

http://www.punktfestival.no/index.php?articleid=17&expand=8

RF


--- rune fagereng <rune_fagereng@yahoo.no> skrev:

> Dato: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:45:21 +0200 (CEST)
> Fra: rune fagereng <rune_fagereng@yahoo.no>
> Emne: Vs: Re: any written material on Hassell`s
> harmonic structures/improvisation-approach 
> Til: loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
> 
> Thanks Boysen !
> 
> I also got a tip on a book. 
> Rune F
> 
> There's a bit on Jon in David Toop's book Ocean of
> Sound.. A wonderful book I'm sure any Hassell fan
> would enjoy!
> 
> Chris
> --- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> skrev:
> 
> > Fra: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
> > Emne: Re: any written material on Hassell`s
> harmonic
> > structures/improvisation-approach 
> > Dato: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:23:07 +0200
> > Til: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > 
> > On 19 aug 2007, at 18.51, rune fagereng wrote:
> > 
> > >> I would like to know and understand more about
> > >> Hassells music. Are there something written on
> > this
> > >> subject? Like what are this harmoni-structure
> on
> > -
> > >> lets say,  "open secrets" ? How does he think
> and
> > >> approach when improvising?
> > 
> > 
> > There's some texts at his web site and some
> articles
> > on the internet,  
> > that you should find by Google. As far as I
> remember
> > no one have  
> > asked him those questions though... or maybe he
> > refuses to answer. At  
> > least I know he started out studying singing with
> > this Indian male  
> > singer I can't remember the name of right now.
> After
> > a wile Jon  
> > started bringing his trumpet, instead of singing,
> to
> > the lectures. In  
> > India you learn by playing/singing together with
> the
> > master by trying  
> > to copy the phrasing. So what he has always been
> > doing is actually to  
> > play trumpet as close as possible to the
> particular
> > Indian vocal  
> > singing tradition (sorry, don't know much about
> > Indian vocal  
> > tradition either). When coming back (to New York,
> I
> > think it was) he  
> > wanted to expand his playing into a "music style"
> by
> > adding drums. He  
> > took the decision to not fall back on the Indian
> > tabla tradition  
> > because he felt it would be too much of the same
> > spice crammed into  
> > the same sandwich (oops, my expression ;-) and
> > that's why he looked  
> > to African rhythms. He recorded the Burundi
> Drummers
> > (West  
> > African..?) and simply flew them into some tracks
> on
> > the multi track  
> > tape recorder to go along with his "indian
> singing"
> > trumpet lines  
> > (sometimes adding a fifth by harmonizer). Myself I
> > have always loved   
> > the way these hand drumming does not play a
> certain
> > beat pattern  
> > (rather sounding like thunder or zebras running by
> > etc) and maybe the  
> > explanation to this is that his early recordings
> > were created with  
> > this collage technique? I don't know if he played
> > the trumpet lines  
> > listening to those
> > zebra-thunder-no-beat-drumming-clatter-cluster or 
> 
> > if he recorded the trumpet first and then spliced
> in
> > the drumming  
> > tape later? Would be nice to find out the truth
> > about that.
> > 
> > I'm not sure there is much "harmony structure" at
> > all in his music? I  
> > don't know about his inner ways of approaching
> > improvisation but to  
> > my ears it sounds very Indian, like the Raga
> > tradition; using a theme  
> > an stretching it into different directions during
> > different parts of  
> > the evolving piece. That music is more about Time
> > than Harmony.
> > 
> > On last thing; very early he mounted the term
> > "Coffee Colored Music"  
> > as a way to describe the music he wanted to do. He
> > meant that he  
> > takes influences from all cultures and colors and
> if
> > you mix all  
> > colors of the entire world it would end up as -
> > coffee colored. This  
> > was "world music for the future" before that term
> > "world music" was  
> > even invented by media.
> > 
> > Think I reached the bottom of my all too thin
> Hassel
> > knowledge by  
> > that - over and out.
> > 
> > Greetings from Sweden
> > 
> > Per Boysen
> > www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> > www.looproom.com (international)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
>       
>
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